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Rule of Thumb - Batman07 - 02-17-2011

Hi everyone!

Kindly share your rules of thumb here which are very useful in civil/structural engineering.

The following rules of thumb are useful to me:
1) For every foot span of beam use 3/4 of an inch height for that beam.
2) Size column so that the column area is 0.12% of the area of floor supported.
3) For every story of the building, use 100 mm thickness of raft foundation.

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RE: Rule of Thumb - lednar_ved - 02-17-2011

Graduate Design Manual (Rule of Thumb)

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Very useful civil / structural rules of thumb as requested.

Author: Rowing Engineer



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RE: Rule of Thumb - RANA WASEEM - 03-06-2011

well here is the mirror link from the orignial author in another forum

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